almost 7,700 miles before the maintenance minder got down to 20% oil
life and I could have waited as low as 15%) and shopping afterwards,
the roofer called to say they would be out today to put our new roof
on. They came this morning about 8 am and are just finishing up
now. Totally amazing! I've been here the whole day. As they tossed
the shingle packets on the roof, it was jarringly loud but getting a
new roof is necessarily a noisy process.
Yesterday, when we advised our next door neighbors that the roofers
would be here today to do a total tear-off of our old roof, the
neighbors on one side said we would get rained on. That's because it
looked for all the world yesterday like the New Mexico monsoonal
pattern was starting and we actually did get some rain yesterday.
I'm glad that our neighbor was wrong and that it's been sunny and dry
all day. Probably too sunny for the hard-working roofers. I gave
them some watermelon slices earlier (not enough) and I've put a
cooler out this afternoon with orange juice, watermelon slices and
trail mix. They are so busy finishing up that I'm not sure they'll
get to enjoy it.
I managed to get two loads of laundry down, choke down some food
(major house maintenance is a major appetite depressant!), make lots
of Monday morning phone calls (delayed from yesterday) and do a
little on the computer.
The new shingles are dimensional rather than plain flat shingles.
This will take some getting used to as it looks too fancy for our
humble abode. It's a pitched roof but the shingles stagger in such a
way as to create a dimensional appearance rather than all laying
uniformly flat.
Instead of using roofing felt, they used a Dupont roofliner which
acts as a vapor barrier. This morning, the roofer advised that we
cut a ridge vent in our roof to ventilate the space beneath the
roof. That and the addition of an ice guard is an upgrade to the roof.